Article parameters
ADHD scoring
DASH Diet
Bias
100

This diet was found to improve symptoms of ADHD in children

What is the DASH diet?

100

This scoring ADHD scale is used for adults

What is ASRS?

100

Another disease improved by the DASH diet, excluding ADHD and HTN

DM, HLD, GDM, gout, NAFLD, PCOS, childhood metabolic syndrome

100

A type of bias in which certain people are more likely than others to be studied

What is sampling/ascertainment bias?

200

The total duration of the study

What is 3 months?

200

List 2 benefits to using the Vanderbilt scale

Free, multiple informants, screens for comorbidity, provides follow-up data

200

Number of servings of fruits per day in the DASH diet

What is 4-5?

200

Randomization reduces this form of error

What is confounding?

300

Name 2 of the 6 exclusion criteria

1) Meds/Therapy, 2) History of other similar diseases, 3) IQ <70, 4) Adopted or foster child, 5) Recent diet changes, 6) Declined to participate

300

This scale is valid starting at age 3

What is Conners (ACS)?

300

A barrier to adhering to the DASH diet long-term

Access to food, eating disorder, other dietary restrictions, labor of planning, motivation, lack of provider time, lack of education

300

Berkson bias is a subtype of this bias

What is selection bias?

400

This many girls were included in this study

What is 1?

400

This scale showed the weakest correlation between ADHD symptoms and the DASH diet.

What is the SNAP-IV scale?

400

Name 2: The DASH diet is high in these supplements, which were also studied as a possible treatment for ADHD. 

What is calcium/magnesium/omega-3 fatty acids/Vitamin C?

400

This type of bias is present in this study.

Sampling, performance/Hawthorne effect